A sale of seven works -- by Warhol, Rauschenberg, Kline, Noland, and Olitski -- to who knows where: totally fine, no big deal, just shut up.

A sale of one work by a museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts to another museum in Los Angeles, California: a tragedy. Months and months of protests and non-stop press coverage and lawsuits and anguish and tears.